Table 2.

Relationship between asthma care quality measures and patient and provider characteristics

	Percent Not Receiving
	Inhaled steroids	p value	Influenza vaccination	p value	Action plan	p value
Overall	13.8		29.8		48.4
Patient-level characteristics
Child’s race/ethnicity
White	9.9		29.6		48.7
Black	10.5	0.004	30.2	0.996	40.2	0.150
Latino	22.6		30.6		51.5
Multi/Other	19.7		29.0		56.9
Child’s age in years
<5	14.2		20.7		54.1
5–9	11.9	0.303	26.7	<0.001	51.0	0.017
10–13	17.4		45.0		37.6
Income
<100% FPL	17.6		25.2		52.4
100–199% FPL	17.0	0.087	36.2	0.231	48.2	0.589
≥200% FPL	10.6		29.6		46.5
Parent education
≤ high school	22.9	<0.001	29.8	0.905	47.6	0.849
> high school	10.2		29.3		48.6
Single parent household
Yes	15.3	0.384	34.8	0.062	49.7	0.698
No	12.6		27.1		47.8
Child’s insurance type
Medicaid	21.9	<0.001	26.0	0.219	56.4	0.026
Private	10.8		31.3		45.4
ED visit	11.0	0.396	25.0	0.267	41.0	0.137
No ED visit	14.4		30.8		49.9
Hospitalization	9.3	0.374	25.6	0.525	42.1	0.418
No hospitalization	14.2		30.2		48.9
Bronchodilator fills
0	29.6		29.2		55.6
1	17.5		35.1		42.9
2	12.0	<0.001	33.6	0.248	56.5	0.021
3	11.2		30.3		55.6
4	7.2		23.7		39.9
Systemic steroid fills
0	19.3		37.1		51.2
1	8.2	<0.001	22.2	<0.001	46.5	0.439
2	7.5		21.6		44.7
Provider-level characteristics
Minority-serving provider*
Yes	16.9	0.034	29.4	0.832	46.1	0.289
No	10.7		30.3		50.8
Provider race/ethnicity
White	12.8		28.1		47.6
Black	9.3	0.173	45.5	0.072	57.5	0.468
Latino	17.7		38.2		54.8
Asian	22.6		27.3		42.9
Provider years in practice
< 10	13.9		22.2		51.6
10–20	16.7	0.597	35.2	0.267	49.0	0.894
> 20	12.9		28.9		47.6
Provider practice type
Health center	36.1		32.4		40.3
Hospital clinic	26.3	<0.001	25.0	0.488	63.2	0.317
Multi-specialty group	9.4		31.0		49.2
Single-specialty/solo	11.9		22.0		47.3
Percent of patients with
Medicaid/uninsured
>25%	19.5	0.001	28.2	0.689	49.4	0.780
≤25%	9.6		29.8		48.1

p < 0.05 in bold

^*> 25% of provider’s patients are Black or Hispanic.